HNWI financial wealth is expected to reach US$51.6 trillion by 2011, growing at an annual rate of 6.8%.
USA has 2.92 million HNWI ($1 million in liquid assets)
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2006 | 2005 | 2004 | Wealth Amount |
5 | 3 | 2 | US$30B+ Forbes list (which mainly catches owners |
67 | 49 | 32 | US$10B+ of public assets, can underestimate some |
167 | 124 | 102 | US$5B+ like CTO of Cisco, who may be billionaire |
946 | 793 | 691 | US$1B+ from cisco stock + large startup positions) |
9400 | 8200 | 7500 | US$160M+ (my own estimate) |
95,000 | 85400 | 77500 | US$30M+ (UHNW, ultra high net worth class) |
(e)930,000 | 820000 | 745000 | US$5 to 30M |
8.6M | 7.8M | 7.4M | US$1-5M Global number, US number 33% (2.6 million) |
9.5M | 8.7M | 8.2M | US$1M+ Global number, US number 33% ( 2.6 million) |
~26M | ~24M | ~22M | US$500K-1M doesn’t include primary residence, (estimate) |
For the 5 million net worth level, estimates for household net worth at this level or higher is about 1.14 million (Spectrem) in the US alone. So about 3 million worldwide.
Global direct real estate transaction volumes reached US$682 billion in 2006, up 38 percent from 2005.
FURTHER READING:
Sources of wealth for the rich and how much money it takes to be rich
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